Welcome to Must Read Horror. After seven sleepless nights and more than two trillion articles read, the results are in. Here are five of the best horror articles from the past week: The Problem With the Modern Slasher Six Horror Magazines You Should Be Reading Examining Innovation in the Found Footage Genre Scary Stories: Are …
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In this podcast we talk to the award-winning author Ray Cluley about his forthcoming This Is Horror release, Water For Drowning, the award-winning ‘Shark! Shark!’, the short story form, mermaids and much more. Topics [00:46] Ray Cluley biography [03:27] Water For Drowning [06:00] Dan asks the important Mermaid questions [10:45] Short stories [16:40] Different markets and genres …
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Spectral Press channels the past Inspired by the Pan and Fontana books of horror and ghost stories, Spectral Press have announced their own version The Spectral Press Book of Horror Stories. This will be the first installment in an annual series. The book will be edited by Mark Morris and will feature stories from Conrad Williams, …
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“King’s prose is littered with colourful references and character quirks that can make even the most mundane of scenes come alive.” Mr Mercedes is the latest book from Stephen King. Following in the footsteps of his recent novel Joyland, it veers away from the traditional perception of King’s work to take on hardboiled crime. It begins …
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Look Out For… The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti “One of the best horror writers we have is back.” Throughout Ligotti’s ‘career’ as a horror writer, many of his stories have evolved from physical or emotional crises. And so it was with the surgical trauma that led to the stories in The Spectral Link, an …
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Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: Bugging Out: Five of the Greatest Killer Bug Flicks From Carrie to The Shining: A History of Stephen King Film Adaptations Toys of Terror #11 The Origins of …
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Scardiff begins to leave its mark The organisers of Scardiff 2014, the annual horror expo held in the Welsh capital, have announced some details of this years’ event. Scardiff will feature screenings of horror films, novel pitching sessions, SFX duels and there will also be signings with Adam Nevill, Tim Lebbon and David Moody. The event …
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“One of the best British writers in horror!” Reaping the Dark is the latest novella from Gary McMahon and is the story of Driver Z, or Clarke as he is known to a small number of his closest friends. Driver Z is a low level criminal, a getaway driver. He is good at what he …
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A few weeks ago we announced our next This Is Horror release, Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley. It is now our pleasure to bring you further information about this fantastic release. Water For Drowning is the first This Is Horror book to release as a mass market publication. With the main story weighing in at a meaty …
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“A serious contender for best collection of the year!” In his introduction to Ana Kai Tangata Laird Barron, one of the finest practitioners of what might be considered the modern weird tale, claims that Scott Nicolay is as good a debut author as he has ever read. The problem with such praise is, of course, …
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